Minutes - Parks and Recreation Commission - 04/08/1993

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Schroeder indicated that it would cost approximately $40,000 to put a boardwalk across the wetlands betWeen the woods and the area for the proposed ball field. The discussion of Case gl resumed with Mr. Boos explaining the C.I.P. district by district as outlined below: ]'ARK IMPROVEMENTS The City of Ramsey has been divided into 17 districts which constitute neighborhoods. Each neighborhood district is intended to receive the full plethora of park services within, or readily accessible to,:the district. It is intended that this can be achieved by either development of one or more fully oomp~. ?ensive parks within each district or development of sporadic comprehensive park facilitie~ with development of trail systems leading to and between each of these park facilities. Within the 1993 - 1998 time frame, the proposed Capital Improvements Program includes development within 12 of the 17 park districts. Itaska/Ermine Park and Trail Corridor Included herein, is the 1993 and 1994 development of a trail system originating at the Whispering Pines and Nor&fork subdivisions at Whispering Pines park, at approximately 154th Avenue N.W. and Puma Street N.W., running north to the Hunters Ridge and Autumn Heights subdivisions, at 167th Avenue N.W. and County Road #83, at a cost estimated at $160,000. The first $120,000 of the cost would come from the Landfill Trust Fund with the balance paid out of current and future park dedication receipts into the Park Trust Fund. In 1995, $57,000 is projected from the Landfill Trust Fund to develop the Whispering Pines park hub to this trail system. In the same year, during COnstruction of the 153rd extension, an off-road trail between Armstrong Boulevard N.W. and Puma Street N.W. on 153rd Avenue N.W. is projected out of MSA funds connecting to the Greenland Hills park district. project . Itaska/Ermine Northfork Trail Nortiffork Trail 153rd Avenue Trail Extension Whispering Pines Park 1993 $120,000 - LFT 1994 $ 40,000 - Park Trust Fund 1995 $ 51,000 - MSA 1995 $ 57,000 - LFT $ 268,000 Greenland Hills The Greenland Hills district currently has two wetland parks which are undeveloped. North of these parks, adjacent to the surrounding wetland, is projected the final extension of the 153rd Avenue N.W, crosstown. It is proposed that the Landfill Trust Fund provide funding for acquisition of the 153rd extension south of the road right-of-way in order to provide for a future nature preserve. Then in 1995, as part the the roadway construction project, a trail be developed utilizing MSA funds along this extension connecting to the trail system in the Itaska/Ermine districts. This will allow for the residents in the Greenland Hills and nearby districts and Park and Recreation Commission/April 8, 1993 Page 3 of 15